UK joins key allies to launch secure-by-design guidelines

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has joined with its counterparts in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the US to launch a guide containing advice to help technology manufacturers keep customers safe by embedding secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles into their products during the development phase. Titled Shifting the balance of […]

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Three charged over banking fraud for hire website

Three men alleged to have operated a website that offered banking fraud services to cyber criminals have been charged with various offences following a multi-year investigation by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). Callum Picari, 21, of Hornchurch in Essex, Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan, 19, of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, and Aza Siddeeque, 18, of Milton Keynes, […]

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6 open source GRC tools compliance professionals should know

Compliance professionals know that governance, risk and compliance efforts don’t often get the appropriate level… of consideration when it comes to securing investment dollars for software tools and new funding for process improvements. Many organizations instead prioritize technical tools or tools that are directly business-visible when it comes to investments. This puts compliance professionals in […]

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Italy to lift ChatGPT ban subject to new data protection controls

Italy’s privacy and data protection regulator will lift its recently imposed ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT service at the end of April 2023 if the service implements a series of measures to address the regulator’s concerns. The Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (GPDP) ordered Microsoft-backed OpenAI to cease offering its service in Italy […]

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AstraZeneca launches African healthtech hub

AstraZeneca has opened an African innovation hub that will use the latest technologies to improve the healthcare of the continent’s people. The pharma giant said that the Africa Health Innovation Hub will have a focus on the largest technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and data generation. The hub is part of the company’s […]

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Sweden and Finland make advances in quantum computing

Finland and Sweden are leading the Nordic charge in rolling out important new advances in separate quantum computer projects. In Sweden, Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers UoT) has secured an additional €9m (SEK 102m) in funding to build and make available a copy of its quantum computer to the country’s IT industry.   Across the […]

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ICO responds to UK government AI regulation plans

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has welcomed the UK government’s proposals to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), but called for greater clarity on how regulators should collaborate and how the suggested AI principles will align with existing data protection rules. Published on 29 March, the government’s AI whitepaper outlined its “adaptable” approach to regulating AI, […]

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Gartner: Europe sees 36% drop in PC sales as spending tails off

Analyst Gartner’s latest market data for PC shipments shows a significant 35.9% decline in EMEA compared with a year ago. Mikako Kitagawa, a director analyst at Gartner, said: “The continued impact of political unrest, inflationary pressures, interest rate increases and a pending recession has culminated in another massive decline in the EMEA PC market. […]

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